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Recent Examples of boxy
The boxy top-handle tote became an instant icon, at a time when city-dwelling young women with high standards weren’t seeing bags that were versatile enough to fit a back-to-the-basics ’90s aesthetic.
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Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 12 Apr. 2025
The game is a near-infinite sandbox rendered in pixelated cubes, and your character (the default avatar is a blue-shirted man named Steve) begins their adventure armed only with their boxy hands.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 11 Apr. 2025
This has led to a growth in private development of new student housing with many older cottage style houses being demolished to make way for boxy duplexes.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Apr. 2025
The seating options, fluctuating between beige-brown and flashes of fire-engine red, are strictly functional: boxy armchairs clustered around low tables or standard four-tops by the hot breakfast buffet.
—Scott Campbell, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2025
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Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 12 Apr. 2025
The game is a near-infinite sandbox rendered in pixelated cubes, and your character (the default avatar is a blue-shirted man named Steve) begins their adventure armed only with their boxy hands.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 11 Apr. 2025
This has led to a growth in private development of new student housing with many older cottage style houses being demolished to make way for boxy duplexes.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Apr. 2025
The seating options, fluctuating between beige-brown and flashes of fire-engine red, are strictly functional: boxy armchairs clustered around low tables or standard four-tops by the hot breakfast buffet.
—Scott Campbell, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boxy
Adjective
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The computers were blocky, the jeans were baggy, and the US military was sending Marines to Iraq to support weapons inspections.—
Sarah Scoles,
Popular Science,
2 Nov. 2023
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According to reports from the Osservatorio Etneo, most of the lava flows have been small and cool enough to become blocky flows not too far from the crater area, but on at least three occasions since December 23, major lava flows have been produced.—
Erik Klemetti,
Discover Magazine,
14 Jan. 2013
Adjective
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The new goal is to increase it from just under 4 billion cubic feet per day (bcf/d) to 5 bcf/d by 2030.—
Michael Lynch,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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In 2005, wholesale gas prices were $3.75 per 1,000 cubic feet of natural gas.—
Brett Watson,
The Conversation,
24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Once that happens, terahertz communications can significantly complement mmWave in indoor environments such as a hallway, meeting rooms, cubical offices, laboratories, and open areas.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
17 Apr. 2019
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The were only a few objects and all had a single, cubical shape.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
1 Feb. 2025
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“Boxy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boxy. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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